Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku — the silver screen, and the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

I came to Tokyo at twenty-three for a summer job at a Shibuya mini-theatre and the job never quite ended. Fifteen years of festivals later I still think the only review that counts is the one the room gives you: where the laugh lands, the moment three hundred people stop moving at once, whether anybody stays for the credits.

Cinepuuulse follows Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — across about a hundred and twenty sources. A good number of them are Spanish, French and Portuguese, because those countries programme this work seriously and write about it better than most of the English-language trade. Genre and art-house get the same seat here. I am not ranking them, and nothing is scored out of ten.

Each story is a headline, a short excerpt, one still and a link to the outlet that did the reporting. We never republish the piece, and the still belongs to its studio or its photographer. A Korean trade paper appears in Korean, a French review in French. We point at the work; we do not put words in anyone's mouth.

— Daren Wise, Tokyo

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New to Streaming: The Invite, The Weight, Marie Antoinette & More

10.23

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here .

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Brazil‘Bem-Vindos à Vizinhança’: Netflix anuncia QUATRO novos membros ao elenco da 2ª temporada CinePOP

FranceButcher & Blackbird : le best-seller dark romance va être adapté en film sur Prime Video, et on a déjà le casting ! AlloCiné — actu ciné

BrazilAtriz de ‘Uma Questão de Química’ é escalada para o SUSPENSE ‘Stillwater’, do Prime Video CinePOP

BrazilJovens querem entrar em um grupo de dança no clipe inédito de ‘O Corpo’, série de TERROR da Netflix CinePOP

France4,5 millions de dollars au box-office : ce thriller disponible en streaming sur Canal+ est l'un des meilleurs films de l'année dernière AlloCiné — actu ciné

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